The leader is always alone before bad fates.
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
The future does not belong to men.
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
I cannot prevent the French from being French
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
France cannot be France without greatness.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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